Many people fail to realize just how much energy there is locked up in matter. The nucleus of any atom is an oven of intense radiation, and when you open the oven door, that energy spills out; oftentimes violently. However, ...
General Physics
Sep 25, 2014
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It's the time of the equinox or more specifically the spring equinox for us in the southern hemisphere.
Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2014
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Approximately every 11 years, the sun undergoes a complete personality change from quiet and calm to violently active. The height of the sun's activity, known as solar maximum, is a time of numerous sunspots, punctuated with ...
Space Exploration
Sep 3, 2014
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The heat equation is one of the most important partial differential equations. The behavior of the solution to the equation reflects the geometry of the underlying space very well. Therefore, this equation has been investigated ...
Mathematics
Aug 26, 2014
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Tropical glaciers have responded to episodes of cooling in Greenland and the Antarctic over the past 20,000 years, according to a study carried out mainly by researchers at the CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier, Aix-Marseille ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2014
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Alan Turing, the British mathematician (1912-1954), is famous for a number of breakthroughs, which altered the course of the 20th century. In 1936 he published a paper, which laid the foundation of computer science, providing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 31, 2014
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Mathematical equations can make Internet communication via computer, mobile phone or satellite many times faster and more secure than today. Results with software developed by researchers from Aalborg University in collaboration ...
Telecom
Jul 17, 2014
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Fancy a little Mars in your daily life? You need go no further than the excellent raw image archive that NASA generously provides on its website, showing the view from the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers as they make their ...
Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2014
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Inspired by anomalies that arise in certain mathematical equations, researchers have demonstrated a laser system that paradoxically turns off when more power is added rather than becoming continuously brighter.
Optics & Photonics
Jun 17, 2014
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Talk about a mathematics hot rod – how does 13 quadrillion calculations per second grab you?
Space Exploration
Jun 3, 2014
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